it wasn't handled properly and he shouldn't have offered what he wasn't willing to pay

and
he purposely said the laptop and not the music ... if it's unreleased
music you wanted people to go search down your laptop and get their
hands on it before it's copyrighted?

no, he always meant the laptop, imo

yet
when he made the video about finding it...it was his music that he was
wimpering about being the reason he wanted the laptop back.

its obvious why a producer would want back the laptop that had his creative property on it.i doubt he wanted it back...b/c that was his favorite laptop screen size/ keyboard combination

and
like someone said earlier-- i think its very possible that man had
something to do w/ the the laptop being stolen in the first place.

I think RL's issue is the way he handled things when the
laptop was returned. Since the issue was the music files (or lack
thereof), he should have documented the missing items ASAP as grounds
for not providing the reward. I read the article on Thurs, and it sounds
like RL never made an official statement with witnesses etc saying "yes
I received the laptop, but it's missing these specific files", then
he'd have more grounds. But sending it to a third party for recovery and
then letting them dispose of the files leaves him looking suspect even
if he was within his rights.

but that doesn't
negate the fact-- that this article was written in a way to suggest that
he was being a cheapie cheapie and didn't want to pay merely because he
got his laptop back and was trying to cheat the person who "found" it.

and
as for the third party thing....he sent it to the manufacturer of the
harddrive...hardly "rico's computer n things fix it" on 125th...so
thats something to be considered.

i do think-- had the race of
the parties in this case been different-- the judgement could have
possibly ended different given the same exact facts.

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